[extropy-chat] The Nanogirl News~

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Gina Miller <nanogirl at halcyon.com> wrote:
> Autonomous Atom Assembly. The ability to use an STM
> to move and position atoms with lattice site
> precision provides us with a quantum workbench to
> study the effects of quantum confinement and the
> electronic structure of perfect nanostructures. So
> far, atomic manipulation has been performed
> manually, or with rudimentary computer assistance.
> We are working to extend this capability
> significantly by developing an Autonomous Atom
> Assembler (AAA). An autonomous atom assembler is an
> instrument capable of assembling a desired
> nanostructure from an unknown random collection of
> atoms without human intervention. (NIST 8/04)
>
http://physics.nist.gov/Divisions/Div841/Gp3/Projects/STM/aaa_proj.html

Which results in a 2D image, but we know how to do 3D
printing from lots of 2D prints.  And somehow I doubt
anyone's going to call "fat fingers" on them until
after they've proven they can do it.

They even call it an assembler...

> (Event) Foresight Institute Conference Tackles
> Nanotechnology Applications and Public Policy.
> Foresight Institute, the leading nanotechnology
> education and public policy think tank, is
> sponsoring the 1st Conference on Advanced
> Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy,
> October 22-24, 2004 at the Crystal City Marriott
> Hotel, Washington DC area. This conference focuses
> on molecular nanotechnology and what it will mean
> for the environment, water purification, clean
> energy, medicine, national security, space
> exploration, international competitiveness,
> zero-waste manufacturing and overall societal
> impacts and other areas. (TMCnet 10/7/04)
> http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Oct/1080749.htm
> 
> High-tech tweezers enable nano-assembly lines. "This
> technique makes possible nano-assembly lines," said
> Chicago entrepreneur Lewis Gruber. "You can use it
> to put things together, twist them, rotate them, fix
> things in locations at the microscopic or atomic
> level. It makes possible, for the first time, a
> factory floor under the microscope capable of
> manufacturing components and assembling them into
> products at high throughput, just as is done in the
> industrial world." (Chicago Sun Times 10/5/04)
>
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-cia05arryx.html
> 
> Buckyballs at Bat: Toxic nanomaterials get a
> tune-up. Over the past decade, the development of
> nanomaterials has progressed rapidly toward their
> eventual use in products ranging from solar cells to
> medicines. However, tests of possible toxic effects
> of these substances on human health and the
> environment have been slow to get under way.
> Recently, an experiment raised concern about the
> soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules commonly known
> as buckyballs. Now, other chemists confirm that
> finding and report an innovation that might disarm
> potentially toxic buckyballs.
> (Sciencenews 10/2/04)
>
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041002/fob1.asp
> 
> Nano AIDS shield given a boost. What could be the
> world's first nanotechnology-based protection
> against HIV has just been given a huge boost. The
> Australian biotechnology company Starpharma
> announced today it had been granted US$5.4 million
> (A$7.5 million) from the US National Institutes of
> Health (NIH) for its research on an anti-microbial
> gel which prevents HIV infection of cells.
> (ABCnet 9/30/04)
> http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1210693.htm
> 
> In Search of a Biosensing Biocide. Simple compound
> is eyed as a lead to a chemical/biological
> counteragent. Imagine this: a simple lipid molecule
> forms a bilayer, the bilayers curl up to form
> nanotubes, and bunches of nanotubes assemble into a
> "nanocarpet." Furthermore, the nanotubes respond to
> different substances by changing color, and they
> kill bacteria to boot! No need to imagine all
> this--such a molecule has been synthesized, and its
> remarkable capabilities have been explored by a team
> at the University of Pittsburgh led by Alan J.
> Russell, a professor of surgery and of chemical and
> bioengineering [J. Am. Chem. Soc., published online
> Sept. 24. (C&E News 10/4/04)
> http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/8240/8240notw2.html
> 
> Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the
> University of Arizona and Cornell University, all in
> the US, have made a superhard phase of carbon by
> applying pressure to carbon nanotubes. The material
> was at least as hard as cubic diamond and retained
> its properties at room temperature even when the
> pressure was removed. (nanotechweb 8/23/04)
> http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/3/9/14/1
> 
> Nanotubes work like radio antennas to convert light
> into electricity. Radio aerials have been around for
> over a century, and routinely receive information
> carried by radio waves into our homes. Now, finally,
> scientists have built an aerial that can do the same
> for light waves. The tiny antennas could be used in
> solar cells, or 'optical computers' that would move
> data round as light beams. (Nature news 8/20/04)
>
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040920/full/040920-1.html
> 
> National Cancer Institute Symposium to be Part of
> NANO Week. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part
> of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will
> present a symposium on the role of nanotechnology in
> the diagnosis and treatment of cancer Oct. 27 as
> part of NANO Week. The program, "Overcoming Barriers
> to Collaboration," will be held at the
> InterContinental Hotel and MBNA Conference Center on
> The Cleveland Clinic Foundation campus. It is free
> to attend, but space is limited to 200 registrants.
> (Yahoo 9/21/04)
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040921/cltu089_1.html
> 
> Physicists Create Artificial Molecule On A Chip.
> Using integrated circuit fabrication techniques, a
> team of researchers from Yale University has bound a
> single photon to a superconducting device engineered
> to behave like a single atom, forming an artificial
> molecule. It's the first experimental result in a
> field Yale professors Robert Schoelkopf and Steven
> Girvin have dubbed circuit quantum electrodynamics.
> (photonics 8/24/04)
>
http://www.photonics.com/XQ/ASP/url.readarticle/artid.251/QX/readart.htm
> 
> Researchers demonstrate nanoscale self-assembly. A
> new processing technique developed by Cornell
> University researchers promises to usher in
> lithographic-like self-assembly into single and
> multidimensional nanoscale structures. The technique
> enabled 10-nm precision lithography. 
> One-, two- and three-dimensional nanoscale
> structures self-assembled by combining a block
> copolymer with a "cascade molecule" called a
> dendrimer in which atoms are arrayed along a carbon
> backbone, the researchers said. (EETimes 9/9/04)
>
http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=47101871
> 
> Magic clusters double up. Theoretical physicists in
> Italy and France have discovered a new family of
> "magic" clusters using computer simulations. The
> clusters, which consist of a nickel or copper core
> surrounded by silver atoms, display high levels of
> structural, thermodynamic and electronic stability.
> The silver-nickel structures are also magnetic (G
> Rossi et al. 2004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 105503).
> (Physicsweb 8/7/04)
> http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/9/4/1
> 
> Good Vibrations in the Nanoworld. Local defects tune
> the vibrational modes of carbon nanotubes. Accessing
> vibrational modes of molecular chains at the site of
> a specific atom in molecules is no longer a dream.
> Using a scanning tunneling microscopy technique, the
> vibrational modes of carbon nanotubes have been
> mapped with sub-nanometer spatial resolution. This
> allows the study of the role of local defects and
> demonstrates the crucial importance of nanotubes for
> the electronic and mechanical properties of
> nanotubes. (Max Planck Society 8/27/04)
>
http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2004/pressRelease20040924/index.html
> 
> Nanotechnology research funding list now live at
> Sandia/LANL CINT website. Shortcut to funding
> sources now available. Nanotech researchers can
> shorten their search for funding by visiting the
> Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
> Internet site (www.sandia.gov/cint or
> www.lanl.gov/cint). There, a searchable database of
> federal government nanotechnology funding sources is
> supplied as a service to the nanoscience community
> by CINT, a joint project of Sandia and Los Alamos
> national laboratories supported by the U.S.
> Department of Energy's Office of Science. (Sandia
> 9/30/04)
>
http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2004/micro-nano/database.html
> 
> Get set for nanotech. Nanotechnology is being called
> many 
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